Louis Saha supports Ruben Amorim to lead Manchester United from the “real crisis”

The former Manchester United striker, Louis Saha, thinks that Ruben Amorim is the “good coach” for the Red Devils to end the “real crisis” they are going through, reflected in a 12 -year interruption without winning the high flight title in England.

In an interview LusaThe former French player understands that the Old Trafford Club has crossed a “Transition phase that is never easy” After their last Premier League title during the 2012/13 season.

However, he thinks that the team he represented between 2003 and 2008 failed in his choice of players and coaches and has a “Real crisis”that he wants to see resolved by the 40 -year -old Portuguese coach.

“We are talking about a big club that deserves better. I think they have the right coach to do the surgery they need. It will not be easy. If he has the right players, he can do a great job”, “ Saha underlined in a training camp for children and young people of the Pine Cliffs Resort in the city of Algarve in Albufeira.

The marker of 42 goals in 124 games for the Red Devils, who won the League 13 times between 1992/93 and 2012/13 before their current crisis, Saha admits that it was “painful” To watch United Finish 15th last season – their worst finish since 1973/74, when they finished 21st and were relegated to the second level.

Lédé at the English club since November 2024, after four and a half years in Sporting, Ruben Amorim is, for Saha, a coach who stands out for his communication skills, honesty and honesty and “Ideas very well defined on how to play”.

“He must rectify certain errors made last year and realize that nothing will be easy. He is also ready to improve, just like the players. If he grows with the players, he will succeed,” Predicts the former footballer, now 46.

Although it considers that it is important to qualify for UEFA competitions next season and adopt “a style of play included by all the players of the team”, the former international France believes that the main mission of the Portuguese is to enforce the club and to fear “, in particular as the local team.

“Any team that goes to Manchester must think that they are confronted with a difficult match. I see convinced mid -table teams that they will beat United, with so many errors on the field, so much controversy in the press.

“Manchester United must again guarantee the basics – to be respected and feared. At the very least, Old Trafford must again become a cemetery for the other teams”. he said.

Although Saha considers the Premier League as the “most difficult league in the world”, with seven teams capable of reaching the summit “, the former striker thinks that United can and must” find a balance “to get closer to the moment when they dominated English football, with Sir Alex Ferguson in the head.

Saha remembers that the Scottish manager, now 83 years old, “Know each player he had chosen in depth, their families, their problems, their weaknesses, their strengths” And that, at that time, “Everything worked as a symphony “ in Manchester, on and off the field.

Unhappy by “some bad signatures” in recent years and cases of players “being paid much more than they should, winning the status of stars too early”, the French Portuguese international Bruno Fernandes has admirably played as a midfielder and captain, having to cover the weaknesses that the captains of the years of glory of the club were not submitted.

“The pressure that Bruno has been in recent seasons has been too much. Any weakness is immediately reported. Captains like Roy Keane did not have the challenges he has because Manchester United was a winning team on the ground.

“There were not these trust crises. Asking a captain to do something that other united captains have never had to do is unfair.”

Even if there is room for improvement, Saha stresses that the 30-year-old Portuguese brought the burden in terms of production for the team, marking 98 goals and recording 84 assists in six seasons, and must “remain faithful to himself” the Red Devils in 2025/26.

The former United striker also believes that the right back Diogo Dalot can “help the offensive team” in the coming season if he is “surrounded by confident players”, especially because he had a 2023/24 “very successful” season before living a difficult period last season.